Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — Modest Funerals. [ARTICLE]

Modest Funerals.

When General|McClellan, a patriotic and distinguished officer in the army, died, notwithstanding the public disposition to the contrary, his relatives insisted that his remains should be consig ed to the tomb without the least parade. In fact, show was utterly forbidden. Now, General Hancock, one of the most gallant and accomplished officers in the Union army, is about to be buried with a like modesty because such is the desire of his relatives and friehds. —Milwaukee-Wisconsin. Ex-Sheriff John W. Powell has leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Stables, and respects ully solicits a liberal share of the public patronage. Hancock at Gettysburg.—The late General Hancock was not much given to humorous' declarations, but he said one exceedingly good thing in that line at Gettysburg. — At a certain stage of that great battle it happened that some subordinate officer, acting upon his own responsibility, disregarded ordinary military rules and caused a decided advantage to be gained where, according to West Pcint philosophy, a disaster should have ensued. Hancock was both provoked and delighted. “If I knew the d d fool who ordered that movement.” he exclaimed, “I wo’d have him brevetted,”